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Narrative and the body in uniform : East German military masculinities in Claus Dobberke’s Ein Katzensprung and Jürgen Fuchs’s Fassonschnitt

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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-02T14:31:22Z
dc.date.available2017-10-02T14:31:22Z
dc.date.issued2015-01
dc.identifier.citationSmith , T 2015 , ' Narrative and the body in uniform : East German military masculinities in Claus Dobberke’s Ein Katzensprung and Jürgen Fuchs’s Fassonschnitt ' , Modern Language Review , vol. 110 , no. 1 , pp. 204-221 . https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0204en
dc.identifier.issn0026-7937
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 251204245
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: d2321a23-04d3-4efb-b205-07e57f81af66
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85000900018
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5084-8729/work/40763204
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11781
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the relationship between body and uniform as one of two competing narratives of masculinity. Literature and film depicting the Nationale Volksarmee of East Germany (NVA) present uniform's narrative of ideal military masculinity in conflict with a second, apparently more natural narrative of masculinity written on the body. Claus Dobberke's 'Ein Katzensprung' (1976) and Jürgen Fuchs's 'Fassonschnitt' (1984) explore ways that the body might subvert the effects of uniform. Ultimately, however, these two works depict the uniform transforming body and psyche and unsettling existing narratives of masculinity, even disrupting the narrative text itself.
dc.format.extent18
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofModern Language Reviewen
dc.rightsCopyright 2015 Modern Humanities Research Association. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0204en
dc.subjectMasculinityen
dc.subjectMilitaryen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectDobberkeen
dc.subjectFuchsen
dc.subjectGDRen
dc.subjectEast Germanyen
dc.subjectUniformen
dc.subjectNarrative Theoryen
dc.subjectLiteratureen
dc.subjectFilmen
dc.subjectGerman Literatureen
dc.subjectPN1993 Motion Picturesen
dc.subjectD839 Post-war History, 1945 onen
dc.subjectDD Germanyen
dc.subject.lccPN1993en
dc.subject.lccD839en
dc.subject.lccDDen
dc.titleNarrative and the body in uniform : East German military masculinities in Claus Dobberke’s Ein Katzensprung and Jürgen Fuchs’s Fassonschnitten
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Germanen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0204
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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